#transistor radios

[gvslover]

Take your entertainment with you, anywhere you go!

(Circa 1940s - 1950s)

[stone-cold-groove]

It’s a miracle of the electronic age.

[joehaupt]

Vintage Philips Portable Transistor Radio, Model L4X057, Broadcast & 3 Shortwave Bands, 7 Transistors, Made In The Netherlands, Circa 1960 - 1961 by Joe Haupt Via Flickr: The import slip for this radio is dated 1962.

[thegikitiki]

Never Before...

   Zenith ‘Zenette’ Pocket Radio, 1960

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Just Some Radios I Used To Know, Pt. 3

These are some of the solid state Zenith radios I collected.  Again, all of them now gone.  Some of these are actually notated as to model.  I will go back through and mark some of the earlier posts with model numbers eventually.  And I realized I actually posted links to some of them individually.  Check the archives.  But here’s to the transistorized Zeniths!

This is a few of ‘em...I will post the shots from the listings, which are much more “archival quality” in later posts.  Hope y’all are enjoying this series of posts, Just Some Radios I Used To Know...I realized as I was selling them off that I paid dearly for the privilege of being their caretaker for awhile, but really?  They all went to “the right person”...someone who UNDERSTANDS why they need to be preserved.  Please like and reblog if you like my radio posts!  Thanks!

[thechildrensmuseum]

Does this look like a radio to you?  Well, it is!  This 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II transistor radio was made in 1979. 

[whitedogblog]

Radio Flask by Royal London, with 2 self-contained shot glasses and funnel, 1968.

[bmaatuga]

Ah, memories! This Juliette tape logo reminds me of the Juliette transistor radio that was practically glued to my ear in the late 1960s on which I listened to KNOT-AM (then Top 40).  This was what it looked like:

Note that it really did come “with a leatherette case with holes in it so you can listen right through the case.”